(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) LIVINGSTON ROBERT R Autograph Document

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RECEIPT FOR SERVICES AS A DELEGATE TO CONGRESS(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) LIVINGSTON, ROBERT R. Autograph Document Signed, "R. R. Livingston," receipt to Treasurer Gerard Bancker for 50 pounds "in further payment of the £200 for which as Delegate I had a Credit on the Treasury by the Support Bill passed the 29th November last." Docketed on verso. 1 page, 4 1/2x8 inch sheet; inlaid. Np, 14 February 1785

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Livingston (1747-1813) served as a delegate from New York to the Continental Congress from 1775-1777 and again from 1779-1781 and served on the committee which drafted the Declaration (but he was recalled to New York before signing it), served as the first Secretary of Foreign Affairs until 1783, in 1788 he served as a delegate to the Ratifying Convention, later served as Minister to France at the time of the Louisiana Purchase.<